Tuesday, May 27, 2008

COMMENTS: Desperate times call for desperate measures. And going 4-for-45 with runners in scoring position definitely qualifies as desperate times. Don't let it be said that Dodger bloggers aren't doing their part to help the team! SoSG and Beantown West are holding a mini Dodger blogger night...at Wrigley Field. That's right, Erin from BW will be in attendance, as will our own Alex Cora. Wonder Twin powers activate...form of clutch hitting! Work your mojo, guys!

While we're all atwitter about our good luck charms, the press is hyping up the Kuroda vs. Fukudome matchup. Unfortunately, Fukudome seems to have the edge:

Japanese reporters agree that Fukudome has Kuroda's number. He hit .330 off the right-hander with four home runs in Japan.

But that won't matter if the Dodgers don't bring some offense...power, situational hitting, anything will do. Let's give Clayton Kershaw something to look forward to in New York besides his first visit to Shea, okay?

AC, the ushers were crazy hardcore last night, so I'll do my best to come find you. My tickets are good tonight, but not quite as good as they have been, so it could be hard for me to get to your seats. I'll be in section 122, row 10, which means maybe about twenty rows almost directly behind home plate. And I'm already looking around for layers to wear to the game. Yesterday, I was toasting, and I have the sunburn to prove it, and today I'm desperate for long underwear. Weird.

Remember how I said it was cold last Sunday when I was here? I didn't know cold way back then. Tonight the wind is BRUTAL. I'm hoping for a ten- run first inning from the Dodgers so I won't feel so bad about leaving earlybefore my fingers fall off.

If you buy online The Baseball Project, Volume One: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails, you can get a song about a Dodgers fan shooting a Giants fan.

They also have a song about Sandy Koufax:

"Long Before My Time" marks the amazing career of Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax, who quit at his peak in 1966. Wynn says, "He had such an incredible five year run and then he just walked away. He was in the Hall of Fame at an age where most players are renegotiating their contract."

It's an album by four musicians, most notably Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck (huge R.E.M fan)

What a game. The Dodgers were winning for most of it until Kuroda gave up that ER and then Broxton widened the gap for the Cubs.

This is the same case as last night. The lack of run production equals a loss... This is Dodgers Baseball.

Also, dodgersblogged is not a verb. You better watch yourself. Shakespeare will come to get you if you keep up butchering the English language! Eric Karros, I'm still angered at you for that play you botched up in 2001. Don't get me started...